Hood



Febf 16, 1943.

H. J. WILLIAMS 2,311,277 HOOD Filed Sept. 26, 1940 INVENTOR Hele/1 J Wfl/Jams mw/.41 JMW ATTORNEY.

Patented Feb. 16, 1943 Unirse stares orties HOOD Helen J. Williams, Huntington Park, Calif.

Application September 26, 1940, Serial No. 358,401

Claims.

My invention relates to a hood, and more particularly to a preferably transparent hood for covering food in a bowl, or the like.

The principal object of the invention is to provide such a hood that will permit the cutting, peeling or chopping of onions in a bowl, but prevent the odor and fumes therefrom from reaching the face of the person doing such preparing of food.

Another object is to provide such a hood that will loosely cover the container and extend around the arms or wrists of the person using the invention, in close gripping relation to the persons arms or wrists.

The hood may be made of any suitable material. Materials that are suitable include transparent oil silk, cellophane, Pliolm, and the like.

'I'he invention also comprises novel details of construction and novel combinations and arrangements of parts, which will more fully `ap pear, in the course of the following description. However, the drawing merely shows and the following description merely describes an embodiment of the present invention, which is given by way of illustration or example only.

In the drawing, like reference characters designate similar parts in the several views.

Figure l is an elevation of a bowl and hood embodying features of the present invention.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the embodiment shown in Figure 1.

Figure 3 is an enlarged, broken section taken on the line 3-3 of Figure l.

Figure 4 is a View similar to Figure 3, but showing a modified hood.

Figure 5 is an enlarged broken section taken on the line 5 of Figure l, in the direction of the arrow.

Referring more in detail to the drawing, the reference numeral 5 generally designates a bowl or other vessel.

Mounted upon the bowl is a hood B. The hood may be of any suitable transparent and translucent material, including oiled silk, Cellophane, Pliolm, and the like. Figure 3 represents a broken section of an oiled silk hood 6, while Figure 4 represents a broken section of a Cellophane or Pliofilm hood 1.

As suggested by the drawing, the body of the hood has a fullness, and the material thereof is washable.

The hood has two hand openings 8 and 9 around which the material of the hood is gathered, by means of an elastic band I0 around each opening. The elastic bands I0 are disposed in hems I2 around the openings respectively. Stitching I3 holds the hems in place.

To maintain the hood in position on the bowl 5, two laterally spaced elastic bands I4 and I5 are arranged around the edge I6 of the hood. A hem Il envelopes the elastic band Ill. Stitching I8 holds the hem I7 in position. Inner facing I9 holds the elastic band I5 upon the inner face of-the hood. Stitching 20 maintains the facing I9 in position.

It is believed clear without further illustration that adhesive may be substituted for the stitching I3, i8 and 2t, or that if the material of the hood is such that it will fuse to itself, such as Pliolm, the hems and facing I9 may be fused to the hood, at the edges of the hems and facing.

In the use of the invention, the hood is applied to a bowl or other vessel, preferably with the elastic I Ll around the circumference of the bowl and with the elastic I5 within the rim of' the bowl, with the intervening material 2| of the hood extending over the top of the bowl, as shown in Figures '3 and 4. By this arrangement, the elastic band I5 prevents the elastic band I@ and the .edge I6 of the hood from slipping down on the outside of the bowl (as the bowl is shown in the drawing).

With the hood mounted on a bowl, as shown in the drawing, and with the hands thrust through the openings 8 and 9, the user may cut, chop or peel onions in the bowl 5, without the fumes therefrom reaching the eyes of the user. By reason of the transparency of the hood, the user may of course see the operations under the hood.

In the hereunto appended claims, the word container is to be taken to mean a dish, bowl and even a flat platter, for a support for the onions or other material worked on is the only essential characteristic of the container and it need not be dished.

While I have illustrated and described what I now regard as the preferred embodiment of my invention, the construction is, of coursesubject to modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of my invention. I, therefore, do not wish to restrict myself to the particular form of construction illustrated and described, but desire to avail myself of all modifications which may fall within the scope of the appended claims. f

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. In a closure for a bowl and the like, a transparent hood shaped to provide a fullness when applied to the container, said hood having at least one hand hole and a lower free edge, elastic bands incorporated in said hood in parallel relation and substantially laterally spaced from each other, and one of said bands being located in the said lower free edge to be placed around the upper edge of the bowl and the other band being located to annularly constrict the hood immediately above the bowl edge, to maintain the hood in position on the bowl.

2. The combination of a container and a transparent hood shaped to provide a fullness of the body portion having at least one hand hole and a lower free edge, elastic bands on the hood in parallel relation spaced laterally from each other, one of said bands being disposed at th'e lower free edge around the container and the other being disposed within the connes of the container, and thus forming an intervening portion of the hood between the two bands to extend over the edge of the container.

3. The combination of a container and a transparent hood shaped to provide a fullness of the body portion, annular elastic bands on the hood in parallel relation and spaced laterally from each other, the bands being disposed substantially above and below the upper edge of the container to tend to maintain the hood in position, and the intervening material of the hood between the two bands extending over the edge of th'e container, also to aid in maintaining the hood in position on the container.

4. A closure for a container permitting hand work to be performed therein within sight of the worker while protecting the latter from fumes arising within the container during the course of the work, said closure consisting of a transparent hood open at its lower portion and providing around said opening an annular edge for surrounding the upper edge portion of the container, said hood having a depth and fullness for extension substantially above the upper edge of the container and provided at its upper portion with at least one arm hole and means elastically annularly restricting the said arm hole, means in connection with the container surrounding edge of the hood elastically, annularly constricting said edge for frictionally gripping the external surface of the container, and means in connection with, and around, the hood at a point spaced above its edge and annularly constricting the same above the upper edge of the container independently of said edge constricting means for preventing the downward slipping of the lower edge of the hood on the container.

5. A closure for a container permitting hand work to be performed therein within sight of the worker while protecting th'e latter from fumes arising within the container during the course of the work, said closure consisting of a transparent hood open at its lower portion and providing around said opening an annular edge for surrounding the upper edge portion of the container, said hood having a depth and fullness for extension substantially above the upper edge of the container and provided at its upper portion with at least one arm hole and means elastically annularly restricting the said arm hole, means in connection with the container surrounding edge of the hood elastically, annularly constricting said edge for frictionally gripping the external surface of the container, and means in connection with, and around, the hood at a point spaced above its edge and annularly constricting the same above the upper edge of the container for preventing the downward slipping of the lower edge of the hood on the container, said last named means being independent of said edge constricting means and consisting of an elastic band in spaced parallel relation to the lower edge of the hood for forming in use an inwardly extending annular offset porticn of the hood above the upper edge of the container when the lower constricted edge of the hood surrounds the said container edge.

HELEN J. WILLIAMS. 

